Merle Charles BARD

BARD, KNUTSON, LAMPERT

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 4/10/2010 at 14:19:16

May 7, 1923 -- August 6, 1965

Bard Death Ruled Self Inflicted

Merle Charles Bard, 42, was found hanged in the cellar of his home, 211 Boston Ave., at 7 p. m. Friday. Mrs. Bard called firemen to the scene when she found her husband, who had gone to the cellar after dinner Friday. Revival efforts were unsuccessful. Firemen at the scene said that Mr. Bard had hanged him self by looping a rope over a door jamb, fastening the other end around his neck.

Ruled Suicide
Dr. Paul O'Keefe, who ruled the death a suicide, said that Mr. Bard had been mentally disturbed for some time, but that he had put in an average work day Friday and seemed calm and contented. Mr. Bard was born at Eagle Grove May 7, 1923, the son of Herbert and Tillie Knutson Bard. He moved to Waterloo in 1950, where he worked first as a brakeman on the Illinois Central Railroad and later at Rath Packing Co. On August 20, 1952, he married Donna Lampert at Clarion. He was a member of First Lutheran church here. He served as a medical technician for three years during World War II.

Survivors
Mr. Bard is survived by his parents, his widow, a son, Dennis, of Woodward; a son, Steven, and a daughter, Brenda, both at home, and three brothers, Harold of Eagle Grove, Richard of Reseda, Calif., and Stanley of Lincoln, Neb. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a. m. tomorrow at the Oppold Funeral Home, with the Rev. Alfred S. Waters, associate pastor of First Lutheran church, officiating. After these services, the body will be taken to the Kastler Funeral Home in Eagle Grove for services at 2 p. m. Tuesday. Burial will be in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Eagle Grove Friends may call at Oppold Funeral Home after noon today.

Waterloo Daily Courier - Waterloo, Iowa
August 08, 1965